Talk to a farmer about building a farm shop, and you can pretty well tell what part of the country they’re from by how interested they are in insulation. Southern farmers are often indifferent to ...

Spray foam insulation – also called spray foam or spray polyurethane foam (SPF) – is an alternative to traditional building insulation. However, it comes with a number of drawbacks including high cost ...

Spray foam insulation is applied with a spray gun and expands to fill a given area, setting to form an insulation layer Homeowners with spray foam insulation are struggling to sell or remortgage as ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

A CBC Marketplace investigation has found that for some homeowners, a “green” way to make their houses more energy efficient has left them out in the cold. The growing popularity of spray polyurethane ...

Homeowners are feeling "betrayed" by the news that some of the UK's biggest mortgage providers are refusing to lend against properties with spray foam in the roof. An estimated 250,000 homes in the UK ...

Kelly has over 10 years of experience writing about home design and improvement for many prominent publications. She also spent several years working at a tech startup for an interior design game ...